Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-4682 to the following vulnerability: wtap.c in Wireshark 0.99.7 through 1.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) via a malformed Tamos CommView capture file (aka .ncf file) with an "unknown/unexpected packet type" that triggers a failed assertion. Affected Wireshark versions: 0.99.7 through 1.0.3 References: http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2008-06.html https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2926 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31838 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2872 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021069 http://secunia.com/advisories/32355
This issue was addressed in: Red Hat Enterprise Linux: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0313.html